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RIP to one of the bona fide greats

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

submitted 6 days ago • 1996 comments

— Accidentally fired workers trying to contain bird flu — Accidentally fired workers overseeing our nuclear stockpile — Accidentally fired workers providing health care to Native Americans “Accidentally.” More like gross incompetence and mismanagement. Opposite of efficient.

submitted 6 days ago • 1142 comments

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

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From an FDA probationary employee: the firings are coming from outside the agency without cause and with zero input from supervisors (as promised.) More firings expected between now and Tuesday. Do not open the termination email before you download your documents and performance evals.

submitted 11 days ago • 290 comments

I’ll say it again, with over a million people in their military, the US should be able to protect its own borders.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

Narrative being pushed on X that 90% of Canadians want to become part of the United States and no TF we don't! #USpoli #CDNpoli #Canada

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Read. Read books. Reading books is resistance. Buy. Buy books. Buying books is resistance. Share. Share books. Sharing books is resistance. Celebrate Celebrate books. Celebrating books is resistance.

submitted 32 days ago • 568 comments

We will have victories and setbacks, good days and bad. We must understand that this will not be over in one election or with the defeat of any one candidate. This is the fight of our generation, and it will take time. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

submitted 32 days ago • 432 comments

Food for thought.

submitted 39 days ago • 1572 comments

A gift from your Canadian neighbours. #cdnpoli #Canada #CanadaSky 🇨🇦

submitted 40 days ago • 14 comments

There are no normal Republicans. bsky.app/profile/patr...

submitted 73 days ago • 472 comments

Best article I’ve seen about expectations from the next administration www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-well-k...

submitted 74 days ago • 1158 comments

Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does.

submitted 74 days ago • 1591 comments

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

submitted 79 days ago • 795 comments

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

submitted 76 days ago • 1573 comments

Here we go, folks. It’s finally conclusive. I guess the tax is lax, so fire the liar. Spread it far and wide to make Poilievre/Cons cry: “Trudeau government’s carbon price has had ‘minimal’ effect on inflation and food costs, study concludes” www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

submitted 76 days ago • 19 comments

People need to stop licking the boots of CEOs and start supporting workers. #canadapost #cupw #bargaining Full video link ⬆️

submitted 76 days ago • 24 comments

So now they released pictures of Luigi Mangioni eating at McDonalds shortly before his arrest. Wtf is up with this situation? How is - every little detail of his life and every minute detail since his arrest - broadcasted so easily? Yet we still don’t know ANYTHING about Trump’s shooter.

submitted 78 days ago • 625 comments

“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.” ― C.S. Lewis

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Facts! 🎯🎯🎯

submitted 78 days ago • 279 comments

Season’s Greetings 🎄

submitted 78 days ago • 295 comments

Happy Holidays! 🤣🤣🤣

submitted 78 days ago • 1387 comments

This!!

submitted 80 days ago • 475 comments

Sweden's remarkably clean power grid. In November, this was its electricity generation mix: Hydro 38% Wind 31% Nuclear 28% Bioenergy 4% Zero coal or gas. - Ember data

submitted 83 days ago • 614 comments

I hate when they take away things you were just starting to really enjoy, like your favorite TV show or democracy.

submitted 94 days ago • 814 comments

Today’s class session in my introductory public health class is going to be entirely devoted to an overview of how vaccines work and how they are researched and regulated. I believe it is my responsibility as a public health professor to share this information and be available to discuss questions.

submitted 98 days ago • 26 comments

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. -- Carl Jung

submitted 98 days ago • 5 comments

Shocked, I tell you. I am shocked. #albertapolitics #alberta #politics #corruption

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Morning, friends. Time to dig back in to all of this. Democracy matters.

submitted 101 days ago • 1421 comments